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PADANG SIDEMPUAN, Indonesia (AP) ? They came from the remotest parts of Indonesia, taking crowded overnight ferries and riding for hours in cars or buses ? all in the hope that a simple, and free, surgical procedure would restore their eyesight.
Many patients were elderly and needed help to reach two hospitals in Sumatra where mass eye camps were held earlier this month by Nepalese surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit. During eight days, more than 1,400 cataracts were removed.
The patients camped out, sleeping side-by-side on military cots, eating donated food while fire trucks supplied water for showers and toilets. Many who had given up hope of seeing again left smiling after their bandages were removed.
"I've been blind for three years, and it's really bad," said Arlita Tobing, 65, whose sight was restored after the surgery. "I worked on someone's farm, but I couldn't work anymore."
Indonesia has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world, making it a target country for Ruit who travels throughout the developing world holding free mass eye camps while training doctors to perform the simple, stitch-free procedure he pioneered. He often visits hard-to-reach remote areas where health care is scarce and patients are poor. He believes that by teaching doctors how to perform his method of cataract removal, the rate of blindness can be reduced worldwide.
Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness globally, affecting about 20 million people who mostly live in poor countries, according to the World Health Organization.
"We get only one life, and that life is very short. I am blessed by God to have this opportunity," said Ruit, who runs the Tilganga Eye Center in Katmandu, Nepal. "The most important of that is training, taking the idea to other people."
During the recent camps, Ruit trained six doctors from Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.
Here, in images, are scenes from the mobile eye camps:
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-simple-surgery-heals-blind-indonesians-020228367.html
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BRUSSELS (AP) ? The prospect of failure loomed over a European Union leaders' summit charged with agreeing on a ?1 trillion ($1.25 trillion) long-term spending plan for the 27-country bloc.
As the EU's leaders resumed another round of negotiations Friday, any sign of a deal remained far out of reach. While heavyweights like Britain and France were pulling in opposite directions, smaller members were also threatening to veto a deal in order to make themselves heard.
"I have my doubts that we will come to an agreement," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said early Friday as she left the first day of the talks, which could stretch into Saturday.
The EU budget primarily funds programs to help farming and spur growth in the bloc's less developed countries. In financial terms, the budget amounts to only about 1 percent of the EU's gross domestic product, but carries great political significance as it lays bare the balance of power between the bloc's members.
The bloc is divided, notably between richer countries that want to contain their contributions to the common budget at a time of economic malaise, and poorer ones that rely on EU money for development aid and economic investment.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is the most vocal leader demanding restraint, while French President Francois Hollande wants the budget to keep paying subsidies for farming and development programs for poorer nations.
A revised proposal late Thursday by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy appeared to do little to appease either side. It keeps the same total of ?972 billion ($1.25 trillion) in states' commitments as his first proposal ? ?21 billion less than the 2007-2013 budget ? but it shifts some money away from investment projects toward aid for farming and development.
The Council is the gathering of the 27 EU heads of state and government.
Cameron said Friday it was unreasonable to increase the bloc's spending for 2014-2020 when many member states are cutting their national budgets.
"I don't think there's been enough progress so far," Cameron said. "I mean, there really is a problem in terms of there hasn't been the progress in cutting the proposals for additional spending. It isn't a time for tinkering. It isn't a time for moving money from one part of the budget to another. You know, we need unaffordable spending cut. That's what's happening at home; that's what needs to happen here."
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo was also displeased with Van Rompuy's proposal ? but for precisely the opposite reason.
"The big problem, the basic problem is that there is not enough money," Di Rupo said of the plan. "The basis is that we reduce the overall volume, and this is dramatic because European countries need the support of the EU."
Given the conflicting noises emerging, there was a growing expectation that another summit will be needed.
"We should not consider that if we don't get there tomorrow or the day after, all would be lost," Hollande said.
Britain is backed by other net contributors to the EU budget, such as the Netherlands, Sweden and, to a certain extent Germany. Public sentiment toward the EU in these countries has soured as the institutions ? and the common currency, the euro ? are considered largely responsible for the financial crisis afflicting the continent.
Meanwhile, 15 of the EU's most financially and economically vulnerable countries have joined forces to oppose any cuts to funds earmarked for economic growth and development. These countries include not only traditionally poorer member states, many in Eastern Europe, but also those hit hardest by the financial crisis, like Greece, Portugal and Spain.
They argue that they need sustained, even increased, help to close the wealth gap on the continent and that EU institutions need the means to implement their jobs and growth policies.
There is no set deadline for a deal, but the closer it gets to 2014, the tougher it will be for a smooth introduction of new programs.
"In talks with colleagues, I had one message. If this doesn't work out at once, let's be sure that the mood is not that dark that we have to spend months on patching up personal relationships," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.
If there is no deal up to 2014, there would be a rollover of the 2013 budget plus a 2 percent increase accounting for inflation.
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Raf Casert contributed from Brussels, Juergen Baetz from Berlin. Don Melvin can be reached at http://twitter.com/Don_Melvin .
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/budget-clash-leaves-eu-summit-close-failure-010913902--finance.html
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The conclusion they reached was that the redistribution of wealth that occurs does not come about as the result of consensus about mitigating the effects of misfortune on work, as occurs in a Rousseaunian social contract, but rather ?is generally done because those who have less, do not want to have less, regardless of whether they have less because they work less or because they have had bad luck,? says Professor Antonio Cabrales of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid's Economics Department. ?Let?s say it is a Hobbesian redistribution: the one with the most power, in this case in based on voting, gets more resources.?
Did you catch that?
In?The Social Contract, Rousseau outlined that while society is essentially corrupting and makes us want more stuff than others, people were inherently moral and under a social contract and laws free people made themselves they would do good. Since the general will is flexible but "is always right" there are no checks on its power. Written in 1762, you can see the paradox it created and how it inspired proponents of democracy (the Founding Fathers of the United States of America) but also modern social authoritarianism.
Hobbes based his social contract on the idea that man is instead selfish, most people are nearly equal, and that a social contract is primarily an agreement by equally selfish persons to not commit murder.?The social contract is mutual protection and so, to Hobbes,?rational people accept the social contract because it helps insure harmonious social living.
The new social experiment (members of the group conduct it about once per year) involved 244 Universitat Pompeu Fabra students organized into groups (micro-societies) of nine. To start, each student decided whether to make an effort or not. An individual who didn?t make a big effort earned a low income. When a student worked hard, they paid an identical cost in terms of effort to all the others who did the same and their chances of earning a high income were two out of three - with a one out of three chance of receiving a low income. Once each individual had seen whether or not their efforts were rewarded in terms of income, the entire group voted on whether or not to redistribute the income generated by the whole group.
If a majority voted in favor of redistribution, it was carried out and the total amount earned by the group was divided and distributed equally. If redistribution was rejected, each individual saved the result of his/her individual efforts. This process was repeated 50 times in each group.
There are obviously several possible results depending on expectations. If the subjects voted in a strictly selfish manner, they would only vote in favor of redistribution if they were poor. In this case, if others were expected to work hard, the most likely outcome would be that the majority would become rich and vote against redistribution. It would lead to this type of thinking:
I would rather pay the price of working hard, and if I am unlucky, I?ll live with it, but if I expect that the majority won?t work hard and will then vote in favor of redistribution and I will end up with the same as everyone else and my efforts won?t have mattered much, then I might as well not work?hard.
The first equilibrium, where everyone works, is better than the second, but which one we fall into depends on what each group expects will happen.
?There is another better possibility, which requires a kind of social contract,? the researchers explain. We can all work and then later vote in favor of redistribution even if we are rich. That way, when misfortune befalls us, the rest of the group will watch out for us.
How can you avoid someone taking advantage of the situation?
?Well, by using the fact that there is also a good equilibrium and a bad one; if we all work and then help those who have not been lucky, during the final phase of the game, everybody works hard. And if somebody goes the wrong way, we can all expect the bad equilibrium in which nobody works hard. This final social contract is much more elaborate than previous equilibria and it requires an exceptional level of communication, but it is so good that it is worth seeing if our players manage to get there,?says Cabrales.
Results and applications
The results lead them to affirm that both redistribution and a high level of effort is unsustainable.?
The main reason for the absence of redistribution of wealth is that the agents do not act differently based on whether the poor have worked hard of not. The equilibrium in which redistribution can be maintained thanks to the threat of punishing the poor if they do not make an effort was not observed in the experiment. ?Therefore,? concludes Cabrales, ?the explanation for the subjects? behavior can be found in Hobbes, not in Rousseau.?
They say this study could be applied when certain socioeconomic policies are being planned, because it indicates that, if we create a society in which the majority of the people are not able to be productive, redistribution will be excessive and the overall incentives to produce will diminish. The researchers sum up their conclusions by saying that the evidence from this study indicates that the social contract upon which the welfare state rests is fragile.
?We must make sure that it is used well in order to avoid destroying it, which means getting those who have the most also pay the most, spending what is collected wisely and providing help only to those who are truly making an effort, but who have not been fortunate,? indicates Antonio Cabrales.
They advocate active employment policies, such as those found in Denmark, which ensure that the unemployed receive training and actively seek employment. If they are still unable to find work, it is considered ?bad luck?. If an unemployed person does not pursue training and does not actively look for work, it is easier to believe that the cause is not found in ?luck?, but rather in the lack of effort. ?This kind of attitude cannot be tolerated, as it risks causing our fragile social contract to collapse,? he concludes.
Citation: Antonio Cabrales, Rosemarie Nagel, Jos? V. Rodr?guez Mora, 'It is Hobbes, not Rousseau: an experiment on voting and redistribution',?Experimental Economics. August 2011 DOI:10.1007/s10683-011-9300-x
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) ? It?s a no-brainer that teens are the biggest fans of the Twilight series? final chapter that hit the box office this weekend.
But another group of fans love the fangs and fur just as much: theater owners, investors and Hollywood.
That?s because the film is poised to close out a blockbuster year for the box office, which has sent the stock prices of movie theater operators and studios soaring.
Total ticket sales are rising at a time when the industry has been struggling with increased competition from the Internet and an American public distracted with a surfeit of gadgets like iPads and online digital video streams.
?Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2? enjoyed an opening weekend domestic box office of $141.3 million.
It is a remarkable achievement since only four other films had openings as big before this year.
A key reason behind big opening weekends lately is the same digital technology that?s the industry?s biggest competition. Digital projectors have allowed multiplex theater owners to quickly add additional screenings of hot movies when there?s strong ticket demand. In the past, they would have needed an extra film print to add a screen.
This year, a majority of theaters around the world adopted digital projectors over traditional film projectors. The ticket sales have jacked up stock prices of movie theater operators. Regal Entertainment Group is up 28%, Cinemark Holdings has soared nearly 40%, while Carmike Cinemas has more than doubled this year. Large screen theater operator IMAX is the relative laggard of the group with only a 20% rise.
Things are even better at the studios. Lions Gate Entertainment, the independent studio behind both ?Twilight? and ?The Hunger Games,? has seen its stock climb nearly 90% since the start of the year.
?One of issues from consumer perspective is convenience,? said Rob Friedman, co-chairman of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, the movie unit of Lions Gate. ?To be able offer enough show times to make it convenient is a major factor.?
The strong box office, ticket sales and opening weekends this year shows there is still an attraction to watching movies in theaters.
?There is very little to match the mystique of the opening of the film,? said Keith Simanton, managing editor of IMDB. ?The glamor has not gone away, even in this society.?
And all of it is good news for the studios, which now have new ways to sell movies to customers.
?I think what we?re seeing across every platform is consumption increasing,? said Friedman.
That?s why Lions Gate is not alone in posting strong stock gains this year.
Shares at other major media companies that own film studios, including Walt Disney, News Corp., Comcast, and CNNMoney owner Time Warner, are all up between 20% to 50% so far this year.
Some analysts are forecasting total domestic box office sales could reach $11 billion this year. Almost everyone expects it to top the $10.6 billion record set in 2009.
Part of that is also due to an increase in average ticket prices, helped by movies that are shown in higher-priced 3D or IMAX.
But no matter what, experts are thrilled.
?More butts in the seats ? that?s what Hollywood needs,? said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com.
Source: http://wtvr.com/2012/11/18/twilights-box-office/
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'Quantum of Solace,' was a dour, dire letdown. This picture's a substantial bounce back, and easily the best Craig Bond picture. Emotional depth and all.
Sam Mendes' 'Skyfall': sleek, slithery, sensual
The cool accomplishment of Skyfall, 23rd in the Broccoli franchise, is that it seems a necessary, rather than mandatory, addition to the year's popular culture.
Among the most ambitious imaginings of Bond to date: dark, supple, and punctuated with moments of unanticipated visual brilliance.
Mendes' approach to action is classical and elegant - no manic editing and blurry unintelligible images here - but what makes the movie special is the attention he pays his actors.
"Skyfall" is a different kind of Bond movie, one that works just fine on its own terms, but a steady diet of this might kill the franchise. One "Skyfall" is enough.
Mendes does a superb job maintaining tension - and releasing it from time to time so we can take a breath, have a laugh, sit back from the edge of our seat - as he shows how seriously the James Bond character can be taken, without breaking it
Establishing a sense of urgency from the outset, the 23rd Bond film hits its tall target with a bonus back-story, character establishment and strong storyline to balance the action. As a consequence, we are offered a film that is uniquely Bond
Skyfall is inconsistent, displaying Bond at its blandest and Bond at its best.
A smashing new Bond adventure for the superspy's 50th anniversary year.
Sweeping action, solid characters, spectacular scenery, a bountiful sense of cleverness, and a pitch-perfect tone of self-reference to the long line of Bond pop-culture mythology.
Mendes and Co. has an astutely cunning way to keep our blood pumping every minute of the latest and, arguably, best time we've had with the enduring Bond in years.
Better than the average Bond, but not the greatest.
a crackerjack Bond film that cannily mixes the harder, more severe edges of the previous Craig films with a sly sense of humor
The latest James Bond adventure proves, at least in my opinion, that Craig has grasped the role better than any of his predecessors, including Sean Connery.
Skyfall succeeds in providing epic escapism with just the right balance of action, art-house aesthetics and melodrama.
I had more fun with it than I didn't, which is more than I can say about a lot of these big budget event movies.
Bardem's Silva and the spectacular image-making breathe new life into the old firm. Bond-age has rarely been so much fun.
This is a strong, fast, and sexy action story that gives us something different from the Bond films we have seen before.
Indeed one of the very best in the series' 50-year history. Director Sam Mendes gathered a superb cast and technical team for this 007 outing and their collective proficiency shows.
While [the film] gets more emotional and resonant as it goes on, it also gets much slower and narrower in scope.
Traveling the world, solving a mystery, hunting people down, killing some of those people...everything that you want James Bond to do. Then it takes an interesting turn.
Skyfall might stand as the lone example of a satisfying, standalone narrative blending with all those tried-and-true Bond tropes. Adele tune aside, Mendes makes nary a misstep.
... a bang-up job of interweaving arty visuals. dour backstory, in-jokes, and, for the series faithful, heartfelt comings and goings ... Bardem is the best (read most twisted) franchise baddie since Heath Ledger's Joker.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/skyfall/
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Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide smiles after landing in a Soyuz capsule outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide along with NASA's Sunita Williams, and Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule Monday after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)
Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide smiles after landing in a Soyuz capsule outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide along with NASA's Sunita Williams, and Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule Monday after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)
International Space Station crew members Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko, center, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, right, and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide, left, rest shortly after landing in a Soyuz capsule outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. The three astronauts touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule Monday after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)
Members of the ground rescue team carry International Space Station crew member Aki Hoshide, of Japan, center, shortly after landing near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide, NASA's Sunita Williams, and Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule Monday after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)
A Russian Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft, right, lays on the ground as members of a rescue team stand nearby after it landed in a remote area near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Three astronauts touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard the Soyuz capsule Monday after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) ? Three astronauts touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule Monday after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station.
NASA's Sunita Williams, Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of Japan's JAXA space agency landed at 07:56 a.m. local time (0156 GMT) northeast of the town of Arkalyk.
Eight helicopters rushed search-and-recovery crew to assist the crew, whose capsule did not parachute onto the exact planned touchdown site due to a minimal delay in procedures.
With the departure of the outgoing crew, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford has taken command of the space station, where he remains with Russian colleagues Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin. They will be joined next month by NASA's Tom Marshburn, Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, and Russia's Roman Romanenko.
The Soyuz is the only means for international astronauts to reach the orbiting laboratory since the decommissioning of the U.S. shuttle fleet in 2011.
Williams, Malenchenko and Hoshide undocked from the space station Sunday at 1023 GMT to begin their return to earth.
Around 28 minutes before touchdown, the three modules of the Soyuz craft separated, leaving the 2.1-meter tall capsule to begin its entry into orbit.
A series of parachutes deployed to bring the capsule to gentle floating speed.
Winds pulled the descent module on its side in the snowy terrain, which is a common occurrence, but the crew was nonetheless swiftly hoisted out by the recovery crew and lifted onto reclining chairs and swaddled in blankets to shield them from the 12 Fahrenheit degree (-11 Celsius degree) temperature.
The chairs are designed to afford the astronauts comfortable acclimatization after months of living in gravity-free conditions.
"For me, everything was very good," a smiling Williams told recovery staff, speaking in Russian.
Malenchenko has now spent 642 days in space, making him the sixth most experienced space traveler in history.
Williams has a spent a total of 322 days in space over two missions. She and Hoshide conducted a crucial spacewalk earlier this month to work on a leaky radiator system outside the space station.
That took Williams' total cumulative spacewalk time to 50 hours and 40 minutes ? a record for a female astronaut.
NASA says the returning expedition conducted a range of scientific experiments while at the space station, included testing radiation levels on the orbiting outpost, assessing the effects of microgravity on the spinal cord, and investigating melting glaciers, seasonal changes and human impacts on the ecosystem.
The crew was to be taken to the town of Kostanai, from where Williams and Hoshide would board a Gulfstream jet for a trip to Houston, Texas, while Malenchenko was to return to a Russian space facility outside Moscow.
NASA footage showed celebrating recovery workers at the landing site erecting a sign marking the successful touchdown.
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With another wild week of college football on tap, what better way to get the Saturday full of action underway than with the boys of ESPN?s College Gameday?
Lee Corso, Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard make this show one of the most enjoyable in all of sports and one of the most fun-to-watch programs on television.
The show comes live from Eugene, Ore. in Week 12 because of the stellar matchup between the No. 2 Oregon Ducks and the No. 13 Stanford Cardinal. With such a huge Top 25 matchup, there is bound to be plenty of great insider segments and even a laugh or two.
With so many great games this week, it will be great to hear the boys of College Gameday breaking down the entire slate of action.
Plus, we really can?t wait for Corso to just be crazy!
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Predictions
Upset Special: No. 12 Oklahoma at West Virginia, 7 p.m. ET
Despite the fact that Oklahoma has finally started to figure out exactly what kind of team it truly is, an opponent as enigmatic as the West Virginia Mountaineers could be the downfall of the Sooners in Week 12.
If for any reason Oklahoma doesn?t come out and destroy West Virginia from the start, the Mountaineers? 12th-ranked offensive unit (40 points per game) will put the Sooners on their heels and on upset alert.
In what should be an all-out offensive war, West Virginia will take Oklahoma to its limits and push them for a win. While this would be considered an upset, anyone that knows the overrated Big 12 and overrated Sooners saw this coming a mile away.
Prediction: West Virginia 42, Oklahoma 33.
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Stone-Cold Lock: Anyone Ranked from the SEC
While the schedule makers can claim they didn?t do this on purpose, the majority of the ranked teams in the SEC this week have ridiculously easy matchups. Besides LSU taking on Ole Miss, the SEC is such a cakewalk that betting sites have turned the odds off in the games.
From No. 4 Alabama taking on Western Carolina to No. 9 South Carolina squaring off with Wofford, if you can find a place for you to make a wager on one of the Top 25 SEC teams, take it and run!
Six teams in the SEC are in the Top 10 of the BCS rankings this week and all six will walk away with wins because of amazingly-timed easy games. These SEC schedule makers know exactly how to make their conference look strong.
Prediction: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Texas A&M and South Carolina all win.
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Week 12 Top 25 Schedule
No. 18 USC at No. 17 UCLA, 3:05 p.m. ET
No. 13 Stanford at No. 2 Oregon, 8 p.m. ET
No. 12 Oklahoma at West Virginia, 7 p.m. ET
No. 10 Florida State at Maryland, 12 p.m. ET
Iowa at No. 21 Michigan, 12 p.m. ET
No. 22 Rutgers at Cincinnati, 12 p.m. ET
Western Carolina at No. 4 Alabama, 12:21 p.m. ET
Wofford at No. 9 South Carolina, 1 p.m. ET
Jacksonville State at No. 6 Florida, 1 p.m. ET
Georgia Southern at No. 5 Georgia, 1:30 p.m. ET
No. 25 Washington at Colorado, 1:30 p.m. ET
Wake Forest at No. 3 Notre Dame, 3.30 p.m. ET
Ole Miss at No. 7 LSU, 3.30 p.m. ET
Sam Houston State at No. 8 Texas A&M, 3.30 p.m. ET
North Carolina State at No. 11 Clemson, 3.30 p.m. ET
Minnesota at No. 14 Nebraska, 3.30 p.m. ET
No. 23 Texas Tech at No. 24 Oklahoma State, 3.30 p.m. ET
Utah State at No. 20 Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m. ET
No. 1 Kansas State at Baylor, 8 p.m. ET
California at No. 16 Oregon State, 10:30 p.m. ET
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Check back for more on the NCAA Football as it comes, and don?t miss Bleacher Report?s College Football page to get your fill of college football.
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Elderly to get up early morning exercise is good for the body, but there are some caveats. Fasting movement energy from fat decomposition, then, the concentration of free fatty acids in the blood will be higher, the excess of free fatty acids interested myocardial impact, cause arrhythmia and other problems. In addition, sympathetic with the awakening of the body, the body began to work in the early morning; secretion of catecholamines, heart rate and blood pressure also will accelerate the rise, the peak incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, too intense exercise can also cause physical discomfort.
1. Get up to do the ?little tricks?
Do not wake up in the morning eager to get up, eyes closed in bed resting for 5 to 10 minutes, you can do some easy to wake up a little trick, such as deep breathing, knocking teeth, chests, the full activities limbs then slowly sit up dress.
2, Before exercise ?snacks?
Morning exercise before you eat easily digestible food, such as bread, biscuits, milk, food intake varies from person to person, in order to not feel the hunger is appropriate to avoid overeat. Cup of warm honey water before exercise is a good choice.
3, Way does not have to be too severe
Aged friends want to do what, and unfit for strenuous activities, soothing sports can achieve the effect of physical fitness, such as tai chi, qigong, Walking. Avoid doing handstands, sit-ups, suddenly leaning forward stoop action.
4, Rest for 30 minutes before eating
Movement immediately after eating, can also cause gastrointestinal discomfort. To add water small amount of multiple, and should not be pinocytotic big mouth, small mouth slowly pharynx is more conducive to digestion.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- The hostilities between Israel and Hamas have found a new battleground: social media.
The Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas militants have exchanged fiery tweets throughout the fighting in a separate war to influence public opinion.
Shortly after it launched its campaign Wednesday by killing Hamas' top military commander Ahmed Jabari, the Israeli military's media office announced a "widespread campaign on terror sites & operatives in the (hash)Gaza Strip" on its Twitter account.
It then posted a 10-second black-and-white video of the airstrike on its official YouTube page. Google Inc., which owns YouTube, removed the video for a time early Thursday, but reconsidered and restored it.
A tweet from (at)idfspokesperson said: "We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead."
Hamas, under its (at)AlQassamBrigade English-language account, which is largely considered to be the official Twitter account for its military wing, fired back: "Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves)."
The Israeli military's media office Twitter account, which gained more than 50,000 followers in just 24 hours, is just one of various online platforms used to relay real-time information to the public, sometimes even before it is conveyed to reporters.
The IDF news desk's email signature reads like a catalog for new media platforms, including links to its YouTube channel, Facebook page and Flickr photo albums. The military also just opened a Tumblr account in English and plans to launch one in Spanish.
Following the assassination, the military tweeted a graphically designed photograph of Jabari, with a red backdrop and capitalized block letters reading "ELIMINATED," drawing both celebration and fierce criticism from a range of users. Throughout the operation, the military and its supporters have tweeted with the hashtag "IsraelUnderFire," while many Palestinians have tweeted with a separate hashtag "GazaUnderAttack."
The operation, launched after days of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel, marks the most intense round of violence since Israel and Hamas waged a three-week war four years ago.
Palestinian militants fired more rockets into Israel on Thursday, killing three people and striking the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Israeli strikes have killed 15 Palestinians.
Military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich said that in the four years since Israel and Hamas last dueled, an "additional war zone" developed on the internet.
"I'm sort of addicted to Twitter, you can say. It's a great tool to release information without the touch of editors' hands," she said. "Militaries are usually closed operations, but we're doing the opposite."
Leibovich is also the head of a two-month-old "Interactive Media" branch of the IDF, staffed with around 30 soldiers trained in writing and graphic-design skills. As an indicator of the significance of the department to the military, Leibovich said she'll be leaving her current spokeswoman's post in February to focus solely on running the interactive branch.
The Hamas media wing has dramatically improved its outreach from the days when their loyalists used to scrawl graffiti on walls in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas' militant wing keeps a frequently updated Facebook page and a multilanguage website. They tend to update reporters of rocket fire through an SMS distribution list.
Nader Elkhuzundar, a prolific 25-year-old Twitter user from Gaza, said the recent social media barrage reached "a new level of psychological war."
"Twitter gives us a voice, but there's also a lot of misinformation at the same time. It's a tool you need to be careful using because there's a lot of noise out there," he said.
Although there were tweets directed at the IDF's Twitter account claiming that the Israeli government and military websites were hacked and taken down Thursday, the Israeli military denied it.
"The IDF blog was down for a very short period, less than hour in the afternoon, only due to heavy traffic," according to Eytan Buchman, an Israeli military spokesman.
Israel's ministry of public diplomacy also started a "Special Operations Center," a virtual situation room of sorts, working with Israeli bloggers and volunteers to "get Israeli's message out to the world virtually, to Arabs as well, through social media and other web platforms," said spokesman Gal Ilan.
Tamir Sheafer, chair of the political communication program at Hebrew University, said the embrace of social media by both sides indicates recognition that "you don't win conflicts like this one on the ground; you win it through public opinion."
But the use of social media for public diplomacy is also a double-edged sword, says Natan Sachs, a fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington.
"On the one hand, Israel has gotten better in conveying their messages to the public, but on the flip side, we're seeing flippant remarks. Twitter accounts can be used carelessly and there's a danger of overplaying things, which they might be doing," he said.
"They also might be falling into the trap of thinking they have their public relations covered, but really, it's their policy and not their tweets that matters at the end of the day," Sachs added.
YouTube had removed the Hamas assassination video after concluding the clip violated its terms of service. The site's reviewers later reconsidered that decision and restored the video Thursday.
"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," YouTube said in a statement.
Buchman, the Israeli military spokesman, said there was no official comment, except that "we're glad they reconsidered that decision."
Google tries to ensure that the clips on YouTube obey disparate laws around the world and adhere to standards of decorum while also protecting the principles of free speech. It's a mind-boggling task, given more than 100,000 hours of video is sent to YouTube every day.
YouTube routinely blocks video in specific countries if it violates local laws. It also removes video deemed to violate standards primarily designed to weed out videos that infringe copyrights, show pornography or contain "hate speech."
Given that YouTube isn't regulated by the government, Google is within its legal rights to make its own decisions about video. Nevertheless, some people believe Google should always fall on the side of free expression because YouTube has become such an important forum for opinion, commentary and news.
A video showing an assassination arguably falls in a gray area of whether it is a news event or a gratuitous act of violence.
This isn't the only assassination that can be watched on YouTube. Numerous clips on YouTube replay the fatal shooting of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963, including his gruesome head wound.
Google doesn't share details about how its video reviews are conducted, but it employs an unknown number of reviewers who regularly scan the site for violations of local laws and the company's guidelines.
Google discussed its approach to Internet content in a November 2007 blog post that came about a year after buying YouTube for $1.76 billion.
"We have a bias in favor of people's right to free expression in everything we do," wrote Rachel Whetstone, Google's director of global communications and public affairs, "We are driven by a belief that more information generally means more choice, more freedom and ultimately more power for the individual. But we also recognize that freedom of expression can't be - and shouldn't be - without some limits. The difficulty is in deciding where those boundaries are drawn."
Usually, the decisions are dictated by the law in the more than 100 different countries where Google's services are offered. The laws in some countries prohibit material that would seem tame in other countries. For instance, Brazil prohibits video ridiculing political candidates in the three months leading up to an election, while Germany outlaws content featuring Nazi paraphernalia.
In the first half of this year alone, Google said it received more than 1,700 court orders and other requests from government agencies around the world to remove more than 17,700 different pieces of content from its services.
The company rejects many of these demands. For instance, Google says it complied with less than half of the U.S. court orders and government orders take down nearly 4,200 pieces of content from January through June.
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AP Technology Writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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In a recent post I suggested that any discussion of gay ?marriage? ought to begin with questions about the nature and purpose of being human and the nature and purpose of human sexuality. Of course, to suggest these kinds of questions today is to be an outlier, to put it mildly, even in Christian circles. But why?
Peter Kreeft puts it well in a recent essay in Touchstone Magazine (Clashing Symbols: The Loss of Aristotelian Logic and the Social, Moral and Sexual Consequences), wherein he concludes:
By far the most radically changed area of morality in both belief and practice is sex. We routinely speak of ?the sexual revolution.? We do not use that word for any other aspect of ethical change. For today, most people find the traditional language about ?unnatural acts? not only politically incorrect and offensive, but literally incomprehensible. This is because they no longer accept the legitimacy of the very question of the ?nature? of a human act . . . Who today still debates issues like homosexuality, contraception, masturbation, divorce, adultery, or even incest, pedophelia, and bestiality, in terms of the ?nature? of sexuality, the ?nature? of femininity and masculinity, and the ?nature? of marriage? Traditional Roman Catholics. No one else.
Kreeft is largely correct (though I am a particular non-Roman Catholic who attempts to debate these issues in such terms). Yet how does this relate to public school education? Here?s how.
Do you imagine that ?the nature of homosexuality, masturbation, contraception, divorce, adultery, etc? has even a remote possibility of being broached in the public schools? Do you think your son will sit in a classroom where the ?nature of femininity and masculinity? will be the topic? Do you think your daughter at the public school will engage her social studies class in a discussion about the ?nature and purpose of marriage?? These things are hardly, if ever, discussed in Christian schools. How in the world would they ever be discussed in public schools?
Will they be discussed in the church youth group, or really, in any other venue in typical evangelical church ministry, do you suppose? Based on the students I had at my own Christian school, my hunch is no. Further, do you think that most Christian parents, even conscientious ones, can make up for this lack by teaching their children to think and engage in such terms, when everything in their public school education ignores it? Some may, but my suspicion is that most won?t. I suspect it?s not dinner table fare, and once the soccer games and the piano lessons and the social life kick in, when might serious attention to these questions happen? The tide mitigating against it, coming from the public school priorities and their wrongful framing of all issues, will prove too strong. Our children will fail even to know that they are being trained to NOT think that there is a ?nature and purpose? to such things. He or she will largely come to think of issues from the godless starting points and frames of reference which the public school education is inculcating in him or her.
No doubt the gospel can go forward without many Christians being able to articulate the nature and purpose of the things God has designed and created, but I submit that our souls are impoverished in the process, and we forsake a very important way of loving our neighbor. For we allow our faith to become largely ghetto-ized and privatized, which may cause our neighbor to think Jesus irrelevant and narrow. Further, I think our children will ultimately find the command to love God with all of our minds a more daunting task.
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11 freaking years? How old am I? That just doesn?t seem possible. I mean? really? 11 big ones! ?But here we are ? celebrating all that we have and all that is to come. I?m very grateful for having met Bill. I truly believe he changed my life.
Who would have thought it? In 1998, we were just two kids hanging out at TGIF with friends while going to school at U Albany. He was so VERY FUNNY and I was so very in love. That boy is LUCKY he snagged me. LOL! 
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Anyway ? bed rest has limited our anniversary activities. I have a feeling it will be a day filled with Starbucks, bacon, a Redbox movies, and some fun with the kids. I?m going to have Bill fish out our wedding album to show the kids. I will take pics of a few of those pics and post!!
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11 freaking years? How old am I? That just doesn?t seem possible. I mean? really? 11 big ones! ?But here we are ? celebrating all that we have and all that is to come. I?m very grateful for having met Bill. I truly believe he changed my life.
Who would have thought it? In 1998, we were just two kids hanging out at TGIF with friends while going to school at U Albany. He was so VERY FUNNY and I was so very in love. That boy is LUCKY he snagged me. LOL! teasing.
Anyway ? bed rest has limited our anniversary activities. I have a feeling it will be a day filled with Starbucks, bacon, a Redbox movies, and some fun with the kids. I?m going to have Bill fish out our wedding album to show the kids. I will take pics of a few of those pics and post!!
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Samsung is gearing up to bring the latest iteration in the Android 4.1 firmware series for Galaxy S3 and in that process, leaked Jelly Bean 4.1.2 firmware has been spotted which includes all the most awaited features that Samsung enthusiasts have been longing for a long time.
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Here are the key features that Android 4.1.2 brings :-
Where all looks good and dandy, we would recommend that you stay away from this test firmware as the package has been configured into a flashable ODIN firmware manually thorugh a dump by guys at Sammobile.?This firmware?will?increase your binary counter, if you don?t know what this means then don?t flash this firmware.
Also, this Firmware will also change your device status to Modified. This firmware?doesn?t?contain any Modem so the Modem you are using before flashing this firmware will remain. However, if you still want to proceed then grab your copy from the following link.
Firmware info :-
Android Version:?4.1.2 ? JZO54K (Jelly Bean)
PDA:?I9300XXELK4
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MODEM:?N/ARegion:?Middle East
Carrier:?Branded
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Build Date:?8th November 2012
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